CalTrain goes WiFi!
not yet, but very likely in two months according to this article!! They tried it out last week and apparently it went well. “The train reached 79 mph while testers…watched streaming video, composed e-mail and completed a large file download at broadband speeds.” Caltrain says it won’t charge extra for the service. Now if only they’d add extra bike cars so we’d all fit on the express train in the morning, it would be perfect!!
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Coool.. The SF-to-southbay commute has gotten much better over the years, particularly due to the bullet trains and especially DrinkTrain. But it’s very hard for me to justify the three-hour-a-day bike/train/shuttle commute, even with a dump truck full of money..
maybe they need bigger trucks
Caltrain hates bikes. I would ride the last morning bullet*, and they would always refuse to let cyclists at 22nd St get on, because their bike car was too full. They only let 16 bikes on the entire train, and the last morning bullet was only 10% full! There was *so* much room on that train, but they would be so hard-headed about the ‘too-many-bikes’ problem. wtf?
Yeah that’s the one I take and I ride my bike all the way to the 4th and Townsend station just to make sure I can get on. Even still, they’ve turned me away at least 5 times!
Lately, I haven’t been minding the longer train ride though because it gives me a chance to get some reading done. Usually, I’m too distracted at home by the internet to read.
uh-oh…I’m probably never going to read another book again once they get the wifi working.
There is so much room at 22nd St.. I wish they would put in some bike lockers.
I was going to make and install some myself, but then I stopped caring..
bike lockers would be really cool! I think someone told me there are bike lockers at the 4th & King station but I’ve never seen them. i should check.
i think they just need to get more bike cars in general because there will be even more people on the train once they get the wifi working! plus it always seems like there’s sooooo much room in the regular cars.
oh and thanks for the pointer to DrinkTrain!! i’d no idea! i once got on an earlier train than the one i usually take on friday night and everyone in the bike car had a drink except for me. i was confused.
Well, if it was in the bike car, it wasn’t drinktrain, it was PartyCar!. Deep helps organize PartyCar i think..